tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post4927627134353847763..comments2024-01-12T12:39:47.241-08:00Comments on The Christian Monist: False Meanings in the Decision-Making ProcessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post-10033790995129700322011-01-13T11:07:05.660-08:002011-01-13T11:07:05.660-08:00MJ...I agree with your commnets about mental healt...MJ...I agree with your commnets about mental health and the shooting. I have a close relative who is a paranoid schizophrenic and its been tough on my family. In the past I was invovled with NAMI to educate myself about this disease. But you are correct...mental health budgets are cut left and right, privacy laws affect treatment, and another sad point is that the mentally ill is not a group that can really speak up for itself. You see how seniors get about cutting Medicare, or Social Security, etc.. Too many mental ill people can be too sick to lobby or argue for more funding or research.Eaglenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post-52285645468339140042011-01-13T09:57:15.051-08:002011-01-13T09:57:15.051-08:00Eagle, that story sounds bizarre and I would say h...Eagle, that story sounds bizarre and I would say hard to believe if it wasn't for the fact that is brings back memories. I don't have memories of the sexual situation but I do remember having this string tied around my Bible. It reminded me to pray before I opened it. Then I would open it randomly and pick out a verse for the day. In that verse was a hidden message from God that had absolutely nothing to do with the author's purpose in writing that passage.<br /><br />M, I too noticed a great absence in the national discussion regarding the mental health issues. Mental health funding is being cut left and right especially since the states are running deficits. The shooting should have brought Parn-Sch to the forefront of discussion instead of name calling between the political right and lefts. The shooting was not a political problem, nor does it have a political solution, except for increasing funding and research for mental health issues.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03457723022566193014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post-47958792851015784602011-01-13T08:40:47.035-08:002011-01-13T08:40:47.035-08:00I read lots of facebook comments about how the tra...I read lots of facebook comments about how the tragedy in Tucson should wake us all up to the power of our words, how the vitriol must be kept in check, etc... While that all may be true, I kept thinking, "Dude. The guy was a paranoid schizophrenic." <br /><br />Sometimes meaning is right in front of our face, and we really don't need to go looking for deeper reasons to sermonize with. If any one lesson should have come out of the Tucson shooting, it would be a greater awareness of mental illness and the importance of early discovery and appropriate treatment plans. <br /><br />But, whatever. That's way too boring, mundane and NEEDED to make for a good sermon. So nobody picks that one. <br /><br />I'm a believer that there can be deeper things going on behind the scenes, as it were, things we can't always see, things in the metaphysical realm, things that can have great meaning for us, etc. I just get really annoyed when one has to stretch really far to get them, or when one plasters them all over someone else ("God must have wanted your kid to die,") in idiotic ways. <br /><br />-MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post-63004317890989838432011-01-12T18:18:21.435-08:002011-01-12T18:18:21.435-08:00MJ....Your business decisions are subject to spiri...MJ....Your business decisions are subject to spiritual warfare..didn't you know that? Satan has influenced this blog to much!! :D <br /><br />MJ again I hear you. Due to my involvement in Campus Crusade, and other fundgelical ministries, etc... I once attributed everything to God's will. That could include taking my job, decisions made with finances, etc.. Its part of the reason why I lost my faith...it backfried on me. But the extremes that people take decision making to is frightening and down right cultic. <br /><br />Let me tell you a story. I live in the Washington, D.C. area. When I was in the evangelical sphere of influence I helped my small group leader move. Over a soft drink (he was engaged at the time BTW...) he told me this really disturbing story. He is in the orchestra of this mega church that brags about 15,000 attending and one of the leaders of the orchestra pulled him aside to have a talk with him about sex as he was going to get married. The orchestra leader told my small group leader how he had to involve God in every aspect of the decision making process of when, where and how to have sex. The orchestra leader told him that when he and his wife had sex, they would stop and pray to see if it was what God wanted them to do. Then they would seek the Lord's guidance on which sexual position to use, etc.. This conversation shook up my small group leader, and for me was really disturbing. <br /><br />But I think that's how the fundegelcials operate. As disturbing as it is, its easier to live in the black and white world as decision making is easier. <br /><br />I wonder when my next agnostic get togther will be!! :D Man the stories I can hear there on topics such as this!!Eaglenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post-86211945919908706592011-01-12T18:17:14.763-08:002011-01-12T18:17:14.763-08:00I think a pretty relevant passage is Luke 13:1-5, ...I think a pretty relevant passage is Luke 13:1-5, the passage about the tower falling. I would say what Jesus says lines up with what you are saying, in those specific situations at the very least.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com